ABSTRACT

This work examines relationships between friendships and implicit preferences across two large samples. There is considerable evidence in the contact literature suggesting that friendships relate to more favorable attitudes toward outgroups, however, most evidence reflects explicit self-report measures. Using samples of 235,543 participants who completed the Disability IAT and 533,220 participants who completed the Sexuality IAT on the Project Implicit website, results indicate that participants reporting either a disabled friend or close acquaintance demonstrated weaker implicit preferences for abled over disabled people. Similarly, those with gay friends demonstrated weaker implicit preference for “straight” over gay. The size of these relationships were considerably smaller than found for explicit evaluations. These effect size estimates should be useful to researchers studying contact-implicit preference relationships as it informs power analyses and sample size planning decisions.

摘要

这项工作检查了两个大样本中友谊和内隐偏好之间的关系。接触文献中有相当多的证据表明友谊与对外群体更有利的态度有关，然而，大多数证据反映了明确的自我报告措施。使用在 Project Implicit 网站上完成残疾 IAT 的 235,543 名参与者和完成性行为 IAT 的 533,220 名参与者的样本，结果表明，报告残疾朋友或亲密熟人的参与者表现出对残疾人的内隐偏好较弱。同样，那些有同性恋朋友的人表现出对“异性恋”比同性恋更弱的内隐偏好。这些关系的大小比显式评估中发现的要小得多。